Chromium:
Another Miracle
Written By Nutriwonders
For all of the complaints
that one can lodge against the United States’ health care system
and the demands for more profits from the shareholders of drug companies,
hospitals, HMO’s and others who drive that system; one must be
grateful for the often forgotten medical researchers who make new discoveries,
and the unknown entrepreneurs who fund new advances in the food supplement
industry.
Many years ago,
during the last century, there was very little discussion in the literature
regarding chromium. The lack of it was known to cause glucose intolerance
(prediabetic syndrome) in animals. Rats were shown to have poor growth
in the presence of chromium deficiency. Glucose intolerance and growth
deficiency were eliminated when chromium was added to the diet.
In 1985 two medical
doctors discovered that it is chromium that is indeed the factor the
lack of which causes glucose intolerance, or prediabetes in humans.
This discovery was ignored for the most part by most of the medical
profession. If a cure for diabetes lies in the mere supplementation
of the diet with small amounts of chromium, then what will we do with
all of this complicated science?
Well, interestingly
enough, some hospitals are quietly training their diabetic patients
to supplement their diets with chromium; because chromium facilitates
the transport of insulin into the cells. This getting the glucose into
the cells allows the cells to produce energy, thus eliminating the many
devastating results of diabetes such as, blindness, gangrene, depression
and the like.
More recently, some
new facts have arisen. Diabetes and obesity have grown at about the
same rate in the United States over the last ten years. This is because
Americans eat so many foods that are high in refined carbohydrates.
These sugars break down so rapidly, that the body’s insulin cannot
keep pace. That situation is combined with the fact that the American
diet is very low in chromium. The result has been disastrous to many,
many Americans.
According to an
article written by Jack Challem (one of the co-authors of the book Syndrome
X) in Great Life Magazine, Malcolm N. McLeod, M.D., a psychiatrist at
the University of Nor Carolina School of Medicine, recently fund that
chromium can relieve depression in patients who do not have diabetes.
His discovery came
after a 50 year-old patient who was taking anti-depressant medication
also began supplementing with chromium. The chromium use led to a complete
reversal of the fatigue, depression, and overeating.
Dr. McLeod united
with another physician and asked several patients to take between 200
and 400 mcg daily. Within days, all improved dramatically. The doctors
caution that it may not help everyone. It appears to work best with
depressed patients who have cravings for sweets and carbohydrates, are
chronically tired and tend to sleep excessively.
It helps
Diabetics
According the to
article, Dr. McLeod’s research fits neatly into existing research
that shows chromium supplements easing many of the physical symptoms
of diabetes.
A test was run by
a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He gave 1,000 mcg
of chromium to 180 people with adult-onset diabetes. Overall the subjects
improved significantly. In a follow up study, 833 diabetic patients
were given 500 mcg of chromium for one year. Over 805 of the subjects
had substantial improvements in fasting and post-meal glucose levels,
fatigue, thirst and excessive urination.
Good Health!
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